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Masa. Masayoshi Son [1]. The master of SoftBank [2]. The Japanese national of Korean background [3] - really great achievement in this context! The individual with, I suspect, the biggest buying power in all the human spacetime combined. In the world and in the history.

Masa's business record is formidable. He's not just serial and parallel multi-billionaire but a multi-billionaires-breeder [4] - for example he's THE Jack Ma-backer, i.e. THE Alibaba-maker. And many others more ...

He's buying pieces of Google [5] ! $32b cash for ARM [6], undisclosed $b cash for Boston Dynamics [7]. Et cetera. And Masa definitely knows what he's doing with these bits and pieces. What mosaic he's building with those chunks.

Masa has a vision. An yuuuge vision. Masa has a Vision Fund [8]. So, visions fully backed. Backing is what distinguishes a vision from fantasy. SoftBank Vision Fund current minimum check size is $100m by the organization's own rules.

With >$100b shopping spree cash in pocket (and we talking cash, not lower liquidity assets), and an yuge vision the already yuge Vision Fund to get even yuuuger. [9] Cause - you know - trillions are the new billions (and it is not 'just inflation' but in absolute, shear power - productivity beats inflation [10]).

On pragmatic level it is as simple as it is ingenious [16] - the machinery productivity and production grows so immense that inevitably and soon its output/supply exceeds the cumulative human demand. The machines run out of market!

Solution? As obvious as the Frederick Pohl's Midas Plague (1954) [17] - machines doing business with machines [18] (- from about minute 09:00 of the vid onwards). Many orders of magnitude more machine-machine collaboration than all the possible machine-human, human-machine or human-human ones. Trillions and trillions of transhuman chips and bots doing business between each other.

And Masa not just advocates or evangelizes this vision behind his Vision - he does it. Now.

In the narrow-minded aspect it is just matter of (a little) time before Masa notices my precious Tau [19] and ET3 [20] (which I told you I see as 1, not 2 - explanations to be delivered in future posts).

From wide-minded perspective ... Well...

Do you see what I see?

Chatbots porting into Tau.

Masa's chips or bots are into Moore's law [14] state of inevitability, e.g. doomed to cross the human scale barrier and to rush even further ahead. To even crack the human natural language code barrier and to do all what a human can do and more. (On human-machine-Tau-machine-human sandwiching architecture for direct use of the few megayears thin natural language wealth and even the few gigayears deep non-verbal communication capital - some other time in some other posts).

In my previous post [21] I explained my understanding of the ingenuity of Ohad's approach towards the Moravec-hardness problem of the human condition [22] - the realization that it is a waste and side-tracking to follow dehumanizing pathways of creation of biomimetic cybernetic homunculi to mitigate the organic limited human specifications, BUT we use them - Tau is the way the problem to become the solution. We utilitify all the processing and algorithmic capital accumulated over billennia into what we call human.

Is the Tau way into a divergence course with the Masa way? No! Absolutely not.

To make chips or bots of > and >> x100 Einstein intellect is a huge collaborative effort. Machines alone - it'd take few billions of man-years to get there. Humans needed - to serve as the effort amplifier lever fulcrum [23]

Tau with its human-machine-human network topology makes collaboration - for first time ever - really a P2P [24] thing, with social diameter [25] of 1 or even <1 for each and every participant [26] no matter human or machine.

- Tau is Masa vision accelerator.

&

- Tau is the geodesic Agora [27] of all intellects imaginable, no matter 'natural' or 'artificial'.

NOTE: Ohad most probably will disagree with this vision of visions on visions of mine, but I dared to dare already anyways. Sorry, bro. It is of course, not an official Tau Team position.

Hans Moravec [1] is the patriarch of robotics [2]. The real one, not the Sci-Fi father. Asimov was just the prophet in this scheme of things.

Moravec to Kurzweil is what's Bitcoin to Ethereum and Satoshi to Vitalik.

Sorry, for the rough joke. No offence, Ray! Back in the earler 2000s I bought your books too [3].

In my humble opinion - aside from the ''reality intratextualization'' [4] concept - the other wisdom jewel of Moravec's - fruit of a life devoted to robotics - is the Moravec's Paradox [5].

Explained in his own words:​

Encoded in the large, highly evolved sensory and motor portions of the human brain is a billion years of experience about the nature of the world and how to survive in it. The deliberate process we call reasoning is, I believe, the thinnest veneer of human thought, effective only because it is supported by this much older and much more powerful, though usually unconscious, sensorimotor knowledge. We are all prodigious olympians in perceptual and motor areas, so good that we make the difficult look easy. Abstract thought, though, is a new trick, perhaps less than 100 thousand years old. We have not yet mastered it. It is not all that intrinsically difficult; it just seems so when we do it.

​or with Steven Pinker's [6]:​

The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard. The mental abilities of a four-year-old that we take for granted – recognizing a face, lifting a pencil, walking across a room, answering a question – in fact solve some of the hardest engineering problems ever conceived...

​As I noted in a previous related post of mine [7], a system's value dynamics is all about how it scales. Preferable of course are systems which make more good to go around than less. Respectively, to come around.

Humanity is a network, and its scaling is stumbled by our innate attentional resources limitations.

Human social interaction is a skill and we naturally have only as much of it.

For now, in the good old hierarchic way [8], we can't deny that we scale satisfactory well (as compared, lets say, to our DNA-blockchain-fork-out first cousins the chimps [9]) for collaborating efficiently on successful execution of trivial tasks like empire building or colonization of the Galaxy.

But not all problems we encounter are simple. In fact most problems are more complex than we are capable to grok and master in the hierarchic collaboration mode, which quickly slams into the Shannon's 'brick wall' [10]

Ohad Asor's Tau [11] is intended to be humanity upscaler [12]. This project is the first and only one I've discovered so far where the so obvious (after you know it) problem is even identified, stated and addressed.

This means uplifting the individual humans too, because we are literally AIs serially manufactured by our society (cf. feral children [13]).

It feels easy for us to attend, to remember, to forget, to think, to talk, to work together - so it is extremely Moravec-hard!

Tau is unique approach towards the Moravec-hardness of these problems in the realization that we do not need at all to waste time and resources to mimic nature and copy ourselves and to create high tech homunculi [14].

The 'problem' is the solution. Don't 'solve' it - just god damn use it!

It is the people who ask questions, upload statements, express tastes and do all that qualia [15] crap humans usually do.

The machine distills the semantic essence of all the shared thought flow, treats it as wishes specs, and automatically converts into executable code, incl. its own code self-amendment.

As Moravec found out few decades ago [16] :

The 1,500 cubic centimeter human brain is about 100,000 times as large as the retina, suggesting that matching overall human behavior will take about 100 million MIPS of computer power.

​When these processing brain things are really put together in numbers the result is unprecedented power. An unstoppable force. A glimpse into it by Ohad [12]:​

It turns out that under certain assumptions we can reach truly efficiently scaling discussions and information flow, where 10,000 people are actually 100 times more effective than 100 people, in terms of collaborative decision making and collaborative theory formation. But for this we'll need the aid of machines, and we'll also need to help them to help us.

​Without application of dehumanizing individual upgrades, without to be necessary to understand and reengineer the billions of years of evolutionary capital, but just harness it and use it. (Scaling itself must be scalable, too, ah?)

In my personal up to date limited understanding it seems that it is indeed the HUMANITY what's to be known as the Tau's 'Zennet Supercomputer', and the machines are the ... collab amplifier media, the 'internet' of it. (Ohad, correct me if I'm wrong, please.)

Like laser configurations of minds.

With performance stronger than thought.

NOTE: I have the honor to be in the Tau Team, but all reflections in this post are personally my opinion.​

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